Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-04-16

an lay IN stOCk o suCkcTS dBln n coon
famine. But Shadrack want of meek
an fprgivin's ndtur' like me, an so, in
Std o takin' the olive branch I offered,
he grabs UP d couple o. big stuhs an
chiicks 'em in the water ahead o. me ai
the suckers. That skeert the timid fish
th't was in the lead an they got de-
mor'lizcd an turned tail. The panic
spread to the hull caboodle O. suckers,
an the fiist thing know'd were h'isted
up in the air zif I'd ben blowed UP In d
blast, an wh-o-o-o! away l were goin'
back down stream like haistorm in a
hurrycane O. wind! Thar were. Peleg,
ridin' high an dry on a big raft o. suck
ers, an a g6in' sumpin' like miled a
minute boun' fer somewhar, but whar 1
didn,t know. Ye orter be very thankful,
! sonny, TIT yer livin' now, an not in
them days wen us pioneers was suffer-
In an a rllnnin' risks like that, iist to
plant civilization an git 1t in shape fer
folks that's livin' now
II were boosted way UP so high by that
taft O. demor'lized suckers th't ez we tore
along towards our folks's clearit' could
look right down over the raise twi&t it
an the creek, an ez VIC come higher l
could see my hafd-workin' pap settih' in
the cabin door smokin' his corn-cob pipe,
and my easy-goin' nanny choppin'
wood to git supper with Thinks I to
myself, / wonder if they'd ever find me
when this runaway flood o. b'ilin' waters
an panic-struck suckers comes to head
some'rs2 An jist then we struck the bend
in the creek nigh the clearin'. The bend
were bout ez sudden ez the angle in a
ship-knec, an wen the wall o. suckers
plunkcd agin it the bank o. the bend
bein twenty-five foot high an all rock,
'twere like the comm together o. two in
gincs. The body O the army were fetched
up standin', but me an the top layers o.
the sucker raft was five foot higher'n the
rocks, an as we hadn't hit nuthin' we
KEEP straight on. We left the water
route. an Travelled the rest o. the way
by the air line, an fore my good
or parents know'd wat hit 'cm they
was kivered snug an comfortable in
scukers, not couDtin' me. II took me
quite vile to dig the ol' folks out; but
they want hurt anything wuth men
tionin'. My folks want noways noted
fer bein' curious bout things, an all th't
were ever said bout that big sucker fish
o. mine was this Nam says; Wizard
We ketch emf In the bend o. the creek,
says, I've alluz heered, says pap, th't
the best time to ketch suckers were on
the fust food. an this makes it good.
An that ended it; but we had fresh
suckers, an salt suckers. an smoked
suckers, an sucker pop from then on till
the mex Christmas. So ye sec, Peleg.
that them wild waves didn't say nothin'
to me, but they got right up an done,
am
The Old Settler was cut short off in
whatever moral he intended to draw, for
the doing cat hurled herself against his
stomach by one wild leap from the splint-
bottomed rocking chair, and with yell
that scared dog on the opposite side OF
the road, and brought Peleg's grand
mother out of the sitting room on trot.
The cat sank its claws deeper and deeper
into the Old Settler, and he joined in the
yelling. Little Peleg went quietly out Of
the kitchen door, and by the time his
grandmother had removed a patent
clothes pin from the cats tail he was half
way over to Bill Simmons's. Ed. Mott,
IN Neao York Sur.